The Irish standard., 1887-09-10
WILLIAM o'BRlEN's TRIP.
The Talented Editor Of United Ireland
Speaks Of His Sojourn on
Canadian Soil.

Speaks Of His sojourn on
Canadian Soil.
HOW HE ENTERED THE DOMINION,
The Oastleisland Oonstables Wanted to Ac.
company Him---Paviug Stones
and Orange HoodLums.
In the latest issue to hand Of United
Ireland we find the following racy con,
tinuation of Editor William O'Brien's
account of his recent travels in America
in behalf of the evicted tenants of Lug
gacurran: "My invading army, as it
entered the Canadian Dominion, was
composed of one man, without as much
as paper parcel by way Of baggage.
My first business in Montreal was to
send out to purchase g. clean collar my
second to borrow a comb and brush.
crossed the fronJier in precisely the
same trim in which l had scrambled
over the Umbria; to VIII, in a tawney.
grey Donegal homespun and an airy
hat of the same, the whole swathed in
the mountainous capped and belted Irish
frieze cothamor, which had comforted
my slumbers on many western night
mail train during last winters cam
paign. A most luxurious costume on q
Connaught blasted heath upon some
wild, nocturnal rent raid, with the night
winds searching you from head to foot
and bowling for your blood, and no.
body to criticise you by the fashion
plates except carful of Prince Ed
ward of Saxe-W Wein1ar's police tearing
after you over the moors. But it was a
more serious affair than it may appear
to face an American audience in cam
paigning toggery. If republican aus
terity frowns down the splandors and
fallals Of military uniforms, it, in re.
yenge ito use one Of the meaningful
phrases of his country,) 'sworks" even"
ing dress stfor all it's worth" Your
American goes even to his grave in
evening dress; and the quality of his
broadcloth, the divine gloss Of his shirt
front, and the coruscations Of his soli-
taire eclipse anything in shat line seen
among the ugly and uneyentful man.
kind of European drawing rooms as ut
terly as the rolling Mississippi dwarfs
the dirty Liffey with the tide out. I
have no doubt that some stout friend s
heart sank bit, if they would only ad-
NIT it, when I stepped orward under
the gaze Of 1000 Montrealese ladies and
gentlemen in the unadorned garb Of
old Donegal. And then the news
papers! 1t may be laid down as gen.
eral rule for yoyagers in America that
if you want to know the best that can
be said for your personal appearance,
get your photograph taken; ii you want
to know the worst, open the newspaper
the morning after your first ''inter-
view" American photographs are the
most fattering pictures in she world;
and American newspapers the most
merciless photographs. For the first
time the enormities of Dormouse col
ored costume were borne in upon my,
mind in every picturesque shade and
free-hand literary drawing Of which
the allied French and English lam
guages are capable; and only that
friends Kilbride and Ryan arrived the
next night from the phantom snip with
my portmanteau and q black coat, there
was some fear lest the American con-
tinent should become better acquainted
with my tweed jerry hat and Myles-n ma
Coppaleen top coat than the particulars
Of Lord Lansdowne's savageries at
Luggacurran. have said that I
arrived in Canada alone. Not that
there was not plethora of offered es-
corts. When I descended to breakfast
on the morning after the escape from
fogland, found one Of the par]ors Of
the Hoffman House garrisoned with
athletic young men in drilled attitudes.
They were the ex- Castleisland consta-
bles, just arrived from Ireland. The
whole party had been that morning en-
gagged at So a week apice in dry goods
store; but, said one great shy fellow,
who took me into a recess for the pur-
pose of explaining the feelings of self
and comrades, they heard that there
was trouble ahead in Canada, and they
had been thinking that if-if-l did not
object to the company of Irish police
men-w whereat the poor fellow blub.
bered and got at the end of his elo-
quence; but he might well let his rich
country blush and great awkward,
knotted limbs Of steel tell the rest.
They were of an order Of eloquence
which came back on my memory often
during the sue eeding fortnight with a
spell more potent than, / am afraid,
the creaking Greek Sonorities Of Dem
osthenes ever exerised over my youth
full noddle. They were more ambitious
prOpos: ,ls-a mammoth demonstra-
tiOn in the Cooper Institute; presenta-